The Twilight Spire

[Archon Bor'khor]

Hello all, and welcome to my post. I am a newb here...dont know if anybody still uses that word...anyways. me name's Kilen, no, not pronounced killen ;D, and Im 16. I've played Dark Eldar since I was 11 years old and i've loved this game like apart of me. Over the years my painting and modelling became better...needless to say i was a bit too young for it and ended up having many of our kindred chewed up by the family dogs and me unfortunately losing some over time and the regrettable spill i had where i crushed most of them with a giant fall ( I weigh 150...dont be surprised).

I am taking this opportunity to re-build my army due to aquiring a new job, and this time I am creating an army list of sorts and a very bizarre back ground to their history...I do not have time however at the present moment tp type out all the fluff...as I am currently grounded ([censored] teacher) and will have to wait until my mum goes to toronto this weekend.

However, I will provide you qith the following points:

-Kabals of commorragh took Abaddons most recent crusade as an opportunity to aquire slaves.
- Kabal of the Twilight's Eye went the opposite way towards the Tau galaxy.
-Found new technology with which they combined with their own.
-Better Armour (in a sense).
-Better Weapons (in a sense).
-No Wyches.
-'Mercenary' section of codex.
-Females are more respected than males (males inferior)
-Males used as front line troops
-females receive better training
-Special Characters (a few will be included).
-same wargear (with a few changes)
-"the spire" is a large craftworld made dark eldar style, (spikey towers and bathed in crimson half light)
-Armour is an alloy of Kabalite carapace, tau body armour, and a negative magnetic field (causing bullets to 'bounce off', but they stillneed armour saves, details will be explained later)
-no talos, ravager, raider. replaced by cobra (equivilant to raider), Rampager (equivilent to ravager), two wraithlords: one is a shooty one, one is a close combat equipped one, higher stats, costs more than shooty one. (Violator is the first, Impaler is the second, to give you a hint of what may come up in weapons, close combat or shooting)
-Basic weapons kept the same with a few exceptions

And thats all i'll tell you..except maybe that some harlequins may be 'for hire' in the mercenaries list...and some evil kroot...maybe...

Good day to you all, hope you like this new idea...although insane..it might just work..-Kilen Specht

[Archon Bor'khor]

The Twilight Spire resembles menzoberranzan (if i spelled it wrong..well nevermind it then) the city of dark elves in the books written by R.A. Salvatore, where the females are more respected in the hierarchy than males are.

Like Commorragh, the Spire is evil incarnate, but loyal to those kin who respect them and aid them when necessary. They help only when it will benifit their position, whatever it may be.

I do believe that the dark eldar are rather limited in troop choices, so i have included a splinter pistol and close combat weapon kind of thing. Also, what the hell is with all the bayonets and spikes, and no rules??? For the bayonets, add +1pt/model to take them (strike first in combat, or +1 strength on charge with only one attack). With the spikes, re-roll one failed to hit roll...also, about the spikes, any enemy who rolls a one to hit will take a strength 3 hit with normal armour saves aloud.

The combat drugs have been changed to 'quicksilver' a mixture of the drugs and the blood of warp beasts. A liquid unkown to many distilled from haemonculi blood is also added to the mixture sometimes, decreasing their chances of overdosing.

Splinter weapons are changed to 'kabalite' in front of them (ie: kabalite rifle). In the current dark eldar codex it tells of various toxins and poisons used in the splinter ammunition...i cant see any rules..can you? I have proposed one of two thins: always wounds on a 4+ (excluding daemons etc), or, any rolls of 6 to hit automatically wound (kind of like genestealers)

Dark matter carbine, is almost like the ork 'more dakka' and 'shootier' weapons, but it is more sophisticated. The weapons the carbine may be added to are the kabaliute splinter weapons, and those weapons only). The weapon gains an additional shot, regardless of moving and shooting. If you decide to rapid fire, it still gains the extra shot, for up to three shots per turn!!! (it also costs 10 points)

Hydra whip, is a weapon that resembles the agoniser, but has multiple heads attached to it. Each of the lengths leading up to the heads are wires covered in a mono-molecular sheath, with barbs and hooks potruding from it, while attached to the wires inside. In the handle, there is a carbine inside generating large electric pulses each time the whip strikes. I am having trouble with how to wound, but the ideas go as follows: you always count your strength as one higher than your opponents up to a maximum of strength 6, and there are no armour saves (excluding invulnerables). Or keep it the same as the agoniser ( wounds on 4+, no armour saves) and have the multiple heads strike multiple times, so, add attacks to it.

Grusome talisman carapace: the armour is filled with the grisly trophies of fallen enemies. The gruesome talisman armour adds wounds to the model, but after those wounds are taken off...you dont die, they are just picked off, then after they are gone you take your regular armour saves when wounds are being taken off. (except when you have a shadow field). The cost of the armour depends on how many wounds you want, each wound costs 10pts, so two wounds would equal twenty points...up to a maximum of double your original number of wounds. independant characters only.

also, tanglefoot grenades, hallucinogen grenades, and haywire grenades may be taken by troops and characters alike.

The dark eldar have been evolving their technology constantly and are finding new ways to do things and new ways to cause pain. The dark eldar plasma pistol is treated as a regular plasma pistol, but it doesnt overheat. the plasma is made up of dark matter, as such, it treats armour greater than 12 as 12, a plasma rifle can also be taken by the new troops im designing. A shock troop of sort. The dark lance is improved to a shadow lance, same characteristics, except: 72" range, and it has a burst of strength 4 ap 3 heavy 3, like a disintegrator, it basically combines the two. The terrorfex is the equivilant to an imperial gaurd grenade launcher, and the horrorfex is the equivilent to a missile launcher, only they fire haywire and dark matter missiles/grenades.

the armour, as i said before is improved in a sense, with a negative magnetic field of sorts. Ork choppas dont minus the armour save, and 'uge choppas dont either. Armour peircing 5 weapons dont negate the armour save, but anything greater will (ie: 4, 3,2,1) some of the troops have options to take infrared helmets, allowing them to see and extra d6 inches in the dark.

Slaves are a common sight in the spire, but only humans and genestealers are of any use on it. Gretchin mobs taken from ork hordes are often poked and prodded into battle on the front lines by the dark eldar, much like the orks...only with more sophistiecated brutality. They are treated in the same manner as other gretchin in the ork codex. only the grot dont get any ranged weapons, they are armed with two close combat weapons instead.

Well gents (and ladies if there are any present ) I;m off, class is almost over..."jeez..what a responsible guy" youre thinking...but civics/careeers is boring as the imperial front line, (our people could tear through anything with ease ;D)... i will provide more details to you guys and/or gals (again )..."may you enslave and overpower, for tomorrow's dawn brings the screams of of plunder...." Death Mistress Vierna Briza'akshin

[Archon Zylath Deschain]

So whats makes your amazonian Kabal worthy of joining the Ra'star we are a collection of the most powerful Archons in the Dark City, we are lead by 3 council members me, Archon No'ki and Archon Hellbrass we were at the front line in the Mon'keigh crusade and have created bases on many worlds we are the leaders of our race and when the time comes the banner of the Ra'star will be flown over the last corpse of the craftworlders.

On a less formal note welcome to the boards and good hunting

[Archon Bor'khor]

Dearest council members,

The Twilight's Eye Kabal recognizes your welcome, it has not gone unnoticed. My kabal grows strong, though obviouslyh not as powerful as the black hordes of commorragh. Our streets are a commonplace of strife and death, mostly from the bickerings of the lesser houses and gangs.

Many mercenaries have came and gone, mostly consisting of harlequins and the Black order of Kroot, a new pirate group recently out itnto function...in other words they work for me. Our city is a great trading hub, and my kin are welcome to enjoy the spoils of war and our new found technology.....pending if they prove themselves in our arena or bring enough souls to consume ;D...

Despite the fact that our community is run mostly by females, i am the overlord of the city...along with my mistress Axxandra Nikk'tiszh....who has the final say in most matters...otherwise she does not pay attention....

A recent study has been underway, using a crude ork method to conserve our troops, to take the weakling 'gretchin', as they are called, and put them on the front lines of our attacks, it has only been tested in gand warfare, and one raid on the imperium, but we are confident that this new method will in fact work....although our own troops are expendable....

The recent crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler and his ignorence has proven to be very useful, i now hold many of his troops captive, treachery is all they have known, and this new betrayal of our alliance with the Dark Men [OOC]Chaos[OOC] is not a surprise to them...although our torture sessions are...fulfilling.

Update from the Twilight Spire
-Archon Bor'khor